California · Nonprofit
OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC
OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,240,660 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($884,840). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $969k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $962k
What Or Halev Center for Jewish Spiritua Lity and Meditation Inc does
Mission
We provide a ministry program as well as providing financial assistance to similar foreign organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
We provide jewish meditation retreats throughout the united states, as well as online, using guided jewish meditation, education, and information at sessions during these retreats. By providing this non-church ministry, ohcjsm will encourage individuals to explore jewish meditation and spiritual practices, thus expanding their own faith and awareness. In addition to the retreats and on-line courses the organization provides meditation teacher training programs to individuals who want to improve their meditation teaching skills.
$254,950 spent$265,984 earned by the program39% of program spendingWe provide charitable distributions to qualifying nonprofit organizations around the world, beginning in israel, whose programs focus on promoting awareness and understanding of judaism. By providing this financial assistance, ohcjsm will help these organizations to better fulfill their missions and goals, thus increasing awareness of the jewish faith.
$401,959 spentof which $401,959 as grants61% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $656,909.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $400k to $850k (+112%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
69% of OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Michael Burnham
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $94k → $228k.
9 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 63% · 2020 79% · 2021 82% · 2022 65% · 2023 70% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
80% of OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
97% of OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $43k that is directly attributable, 53% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC?
- OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,240,660 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($884,840). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,240,660 in grants to OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $884,840 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OR HALEV CENTER FOR JEWISH SPIRITUA LITY AND MEDITATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing